Wednesday, May 8, 2013

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z May 8, 2013

Midwest/Great Lakes:
An area of thin to moderately dense smoke was observed across portions
of Wisconsin, eastern Iowa, Illinois, northwestern Indiana, Michigan
and southeastern Ontario province.  The portion of the smoke seen as
moderately dense was oriented southwest to northeast across central
Michigan. This area of remnant smoke originated from several agricultural
fires that were analyzed yesterday across the northern plains and
south-central Canada.

Pacific Northwest:
A relatively small, elongated thin remnant smoke plume is seen drifting
southwest across eastern Washington state.  Smoke is believed to be from
fires across northern Idaho and western Montana.

Dust:
A broad area of aerosols, believed to be dust is seen over Alberta,
Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba provinces.  Dust is believed to have
originated from Asia and transported across northern Pacific.


Warren

THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS
OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME
DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE
FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST
ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF
THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO
THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:

JPEG:   http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html
GIS:    http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm
KML:    http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.